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From: floyd@smoke.BRL.MIL (Floyd C. Wofford)
Newsgroups: comp.dsp
Subject: Re: Hartley xform
Message-ID: <11261@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Oct 89 17:27:22 GMT
References: <wZ_UwgC00UkM8KM0RN@andrew.cmu.edu> <1115@cernvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: floyd@brl.arpa (Floyd C. Wofford)
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In article <1115@cernvax.UUCP> hjm@cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews) writes:
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>It sounds like Bracewell is patenting common knowledge.

I don't know if it is common knowledge that the Fourier Transform
of real data is Hermitian but Bracewell shows a pretty picture of that
fact in his 1965 book "The Fourier Transform...".  He has other pretty
pictures of symmetry properties on page 15.

I wonder if he knew that?